Compilation has nothing in particular to do with a language being a general purpose language in some sense, or a scripting language.

Scripting languages tend to be interpreted and very quick for a certain range of tasks. That is true of Perl - command line Perl one-liners are a common way of automating many tasks.

Scripting languages are often used for batch processing at the command line - that is certinally true of Perl.

Perl makes a lot of the things that you would want in a scripting language easily available, but also provides much more power than classic batch processing oriented scripting languages. Perl is an Uber scripting language.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: perl is an scripting language or programming language? by GrandFather
in thread perl is an scripting language or programming language? by perladdict

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